Predators PR Try to Make Best of Awkward Saturday Night Live Skit

The Nashville Predators have tried to make the best of an awkward situation — frankly, a bit of a PR mess — by going with the flow after a Saturday Night Live skit poked fun at their team name.

In the sketch, three hockey players were doing charity commercials, one from the Los Angeles Kings, one from the New York Rangers, and one from the Predators. Unfortunately, the play on words with the Predators’ name made the hockey player — played by Myles Teller — extremely uncomfortable.

once a predator always a predator pic.twitter.com/tEbSNJiw3O

— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) November 2, 2025

The Predators have responded following the skit, gaining some mainstream attention: “Wait, is this f— play about us?” trying to make the best of the sketch and use the opportunity to share their own charity link. “While you’re here, learn more and donate to support the @PredsFoundation work in Nashville and middle Tennessee!,” they wrote.

One fan wrote, “There’s no such thing as bad PR…” (really? :). The response was due to the fact that the sketch focused on how the player kept being asked to say lines that made him appear to be a child predator. The one player said, “I may be a King on the ice, but I’m also a King in the community.” The other player said, “And I’m a Ranger in my community.” When it got to the Preds player, his line read, “And I’m a Predator in my community.” He reluctantly added, “When you see this face, just know a predator is in the community.”

Other lines included him going to Thailand, volunteering in hospitals to make sick kids feel touched, and his name was actually “Chase Kid, right wing Predator.”

At one point, he asked if he had to say the lines he was given, noting, “You hear how it sounds, right?” The directors didn’t see the connection, which led them to suggest he was being a diva. At one point, the directors added a child to the scene, and his lines were, “This is the predator that forever altered the course of my life.”

Fans Are Reacting To the Sketch

Some fans understood that, while in poor taste, this was a joke. Others were bothered by the connection, knowing it wasn’t a great look for the franchise. It could be one of the reasons why, when the organization actually pushes its Preds in community initiatives, it doesn’t use the word’ predators’.

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